Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-08-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.

American SlQlGllS.
| -Grocers' clerks in Pittsburg are
! organizing for shorter hours.
-Harvard's law department is to
publish law monthly
Paris is said to consume nearly
fifty tons of snails in a season.
"A large ice factory IS to be put in
operation at Roanoke, Virginia.
The mayor of Dubuque, Iowa,
runs lunch counter and saloon.
An Atlantic City hotel cook res
ceived SO the other day for giving q
guest his receipt for making mufins.
During the year 1856 thlrty-sia
telegraph offices were opened in China.
II An outbreak of rabies and hydrOa
phObia is reported from Cairo, Egypt6
"A hunter IL Nine Pierre, d. T,
recently killed a rabbit four feet long.
An Iona (AIich.) justice of ths
peace has begun suit for wedding
fee.
The electric cable is to superceds
horses on the New Brunswick On. ID
street railway.
"A portrait Of death 'as large as
life" was lately advertised in an IrisI
provincial paper.
Malaria is the name of a newly
established post-olIlce in MeckIenburg
county, Virginia.
1t has been discovered in Paris
that the contents of many of the letter
boxes are Systematically burned
a miUraIIleuse is being tried in the
Austrian army which is said to be able
to IRE lUCO bullets in 80 seconds.
-Leyden University in Holland, is
the richest III the world. Its real es-
tate alone IS said to be worth 81 ,O0O,-
900.
Moro colored people are said to
have attended the funeral OF the late
Bishop Lee than were ever before seen
at a funeral IL Delaware.
: -Ra5bI GeTstmann, Of st. Lcuis,
who WAS lieutenant In the Florida
war, has been granted a pension, with
arrears amounting to 5000.
| -BOardlng-hCuse keepers IN Wash
Ingtou are worried over the loss of the
! board OF visiting Indians, which the In
dian Department refuses to pay.
After many fruitIess efforts in that
direction local society IL Cincinnati
has succeeded III having four actors
lined 80 each for acting on Sunday.
,, New York (city) manufactured
nearly 1000, coo less cigars during the
; first quarter Of this year than during
= Engines or L, 900 horse power have
. just been shipped from Glasgow, Scot
land, TO st. Petersburg. They Will be
, put IN the new RUSSIAN iroaclad SmOpe.
q Many valuable gifts, including one
; OF $4,000 and another Of an organ,
# have been presented by anonymous
n donors for the new English church at
Copenhagen.
The rails Of the sixteen street car
a companies in New York would reach
e to Jacksonville, Florida, from the
former city, II IS stated, II land IN con-
tInUOus line.
The Chinese Testament, revised by
tie Rev. Griffith John, has just been
published, and the demand for parts of
5 this version averages nearly 900
A copies Per day.
r The whole country around about
t Oxford, New jersey, has been filed
4 with smoke from fire that has been
= consuming woods in that vicinity
for some days past.
Orange, New Jersey, successfully
experimental with an electrical street
railway (half mile. and the whole
; line, 1t Is stated, viii now be equipped
with electric motors.
T An iron coMn-shaped receptacle
: has been accidentally found by cistern
! dlggerS at Kansas City, No, and the
, finders believe they have struck pre-
= historic burial casket,
r Bean shooters in the hands of boys
! have caused such boom in the win
: dow glass business in PitLsburg as to
a call Tor an orderfrOm the police author
! lties prohibiting their sale.
a A Ted-hot poker, which she
: thrust down her throat, was the extra
I ord mary fs1e+ Of g.1F
y tion selected by a dissipated woman Of
. Charlottetown. y. =, recently.
b -Ths "GndS'' Of the remains of lake
5 dwellers in Lake Constance, Switzer-
T, land, are reported TO have been very
!, good this year, owing 10 the unusual
: lowness Of the waters OF the lake.
: A Bncks county farmer, who sent
s ten dollars to a Philadelphia address,
{ in answer to an advertisement of the
3 finest feed cutter in America, received
> in return two-GOilar set of false
: teeth.
4 "A clock, whose dial is said to be
80 feet i'll diameter, and which is
: claimed 10 be the biggest III the world,
: IS in course Of construction in New
: I 9ork, and IS 10 be placed at Manhattan
u Beach.
> a petition has been prepared at
Jan / At4lA Nls2NJ tiollll5 Llt Ivy lycAdIL-
q ment not 10 condemn the old flagship
!. Hartford, but to preserve it as the
9 EnSEsl kept Nelson's flagship Victoria
= from sentiments Of patriotism.
y Owing to 1uc increase IN freight
Il rates from the East, under the Inter-
d State Commerce law, the boarding
o house and restaurant keepers of River
side, Cal, ''aTe compelled" to raise
their rates Of board.
"A drummer, attempting 10 elope
with his best girl from augusta, Ga,
was arrested as horse thief by the
n man from whom lie lad hired the
in buggy, but managed to escape the law
in time to get married.
8 "A tariff rate for the telephone be-
K tween Paris and brussels has been
d agreed upon by the French and Bel
,r CLAN Governments. The monthly sub
i scriptIOn for daily conversation Of
IL 10 minutes is fixed at 1OOf.
re "A divorce suit in Minneapolis has
~ developed the fact that the defendant,
Is who was bartender in a local saloon, Is
rt the scion OF a noble English family,
g and that his son IS heir 10 an estate
{. sad to DC worth = couple Of million
dollars.
"A vein OF coal was discovered re-
Gently at San Luis Obispo, Cal, while
~ running tunnel to supply the County
OF Hospital with water. some of the coal
10 was taken to - blacksmith shop and
&c tried, proving % excellent quality.
y, "A flock OF wild geese flying over
u Waterbury, Connecticut. recently saw
!" one OF the kites which the Waterbury
: boys were flying. This particular kite
.e was up very high, and the geese OBJ
Is jected to ii. They ciTcled about it